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Beauty and the Beast (US - DVD R1 | BD RA)

Disney reveals details for DVD and Blu-ray editions of a "Diamond Edition"

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has announced 2-disc DVD ($29.99) and Blu-ray/DVD Combo ($39.99) releases of Beauty and the Beast for the 23rd November and 5th October respectively. Each will feature hours of additional viewing experiences that include behind the scenes features, deleted scenes, enhanced music tracks, immersive games and more. We'll bring you further details as we get them. We've attached package artwork for the Blu-ray release below:

Synopsis

Quote: Set in and around a quaint French village during the late 18th century, Beauty and the Beast follows the fantastic adventures of Belle, a bright and beautiful young woman who finds escape from her ordinary life, and the advances of a boorish suitor, Gaston, by reading books. Meanwhile, off in a castle in the distance, a cruel young prince is cast under the spell of an enchantress who turns him into a tormented beast, while transforming his servants into animated household objects. In order to remove the curse, the Beast must discover a true love who will return his affection before the last petal falls from an enchanted rose. When Belle’s inventor father stumbles upon the Beast’s castle and is taken prisoner, Belle comes to the rescue and agrees to take her father’s place. With the help of the castle’s enchanted staff, she sees beneath the Beast’s exterior and discovers the heart and soul of a human prince.

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You know. I actually hate buying Blu-Ray discs in DVD packaging. I mean we all been having DVD for a while and certainly won't mind more DVD buying with sequels to a series of movies that we have already have on DVD, and yet it's a series we love. It's very simple that I'll possibly just get the Blu-Ray packaging.

Bouncy X wrote: if the package contains both the dvd and blu-ray, why even bother doing two seperate releases? and of course they're still releasing a dvd only edition but not a blu-ray only edition. so once again they are forcing blu-ray buyers to pay more for something they might not even want.

this whole combo thing is such a bad idea.

I for one love the combos. They tend to be the cheaper of the two offerings and we usually buy them for my nephews. Split the two so my aunts have the DVD and they keep the bluray.

Finally! I've been waiting for this to be released on DVD since 2007. This better be better than the horrible remastered 2002 version (which also had the atrocious "Human Again" song thrown in the middle of the movie). Cover could be better (even the 2002 cover was heaps better) but I'll grow used to it. My favorite Disney flick by miles!

Bouncy X wrote: if the package contains both the dvd and blu-ray, why even bother doing two seperate releases? and of course they're still releasing a dvd only edition but not a blu-ray only edition. so once again they are forcing blu-ray buyers to pay more for something they might not even want.

this whole combo thing is such a bad idea.

The combo thing is a great idea. It gets people that aren't buying blurays to buy them and gets people who complain about spending the money but happily do it every week to spend more than they should. So, bluray stats go up because they say a bigger % of people are buying blurays and they can show that this is where the market is going thus convincing the rest of the world that they are living in the dark ages for living with the amazing image that DVD has to offer.

That, and the blurays that disney were putting out were that epxensive to begin with. Lucky for you they didn't make them more expensive to start this option when the started it.

roxerguy wrote: as long as this is a good transfer and does NOT have that awful song they added into the last dvd release I might double dip for the Blu-ray. It's a good film and deserves a good HD release.

I thought that the song was a great addition. Obviously, you have no cinematic taste. It added a lot to the movie.

The artwork, IMO, isn't bad, but, it's not as memorable as the recent Snow White Blu-Ray's release. Also, I gotta go to amazon and get my hands on the Sleeping Beauty Blu-Ray before they start jacking them up to fifty bucks or more. Will get this.

I guess the same reason why Snow White got a terrible cover too :\, Belle's face looks nothing like her, and the staircase with the enchanted characters doesn't make any sense in the middle of the room,

7958NHZY wrote: does this mean Oct 5 the Blu Ray will be released and the standard dvd on Nov 23?

I don't understand the artwork where the first picture says "DVD+Blu-ray" and the 2nd photo shows "Blu-ray + DVD"

It is redundant, but Disney is really pushing for the Blu-ray to end up in many houses. So they release the same two discs (DVD & Blu) in two different packaging; the first cover is for the DVD packaging and the second is obviously Blu-ray. The DVD packaging is to 'encourage' people who haven't bought Blu-ray to do so to 'future proof' their collection.

Basically, it's the DVD casing that is different. The guy at FYE explained it to me. If you want to have the old fashioned regular DVD case, you would buy the DVD + BLU RAY. If you want the BLU RAY DVD case, you get the BLU RAY + DVD. If you look at the 2nd picture, you can see the case is a BLU Ray case.

Very ridiculous, but I guess it worked since I got both for Snow White. LOL!!

Bouncy X wrote: if the package contains both the dvd and blu-ray, why even bother doing two seperate releases? and of course they're still releasing a dvd only edition but not a blu-ray only edition. so once again they are forcing blu-ray buyers to pay more for something they might not even want.

this whole combo thing is such a bad idea.

I love it - it means I can still watch the movie in other rooms where I only have a DVD player.

mromariz wrote: The photoshop on the cover could(and should) have been better, you can see that Belle's dress is messed up, the lines under the title don't match the upper body.

This is an automatic buy. The last set was fantastic, so hopefully this one - with its improved transfer and sound quality - will be even better (and hopefully have new bonus material in addition to the old stuff).

But I want a deluxe edition box set, like the LE storybook design the last one had.

if the package contains both the dvd and blu-ray, why even bother doing two seperate releases? and of course they're still releasing a dvd only edition but not a blu-ray only edition. so once again they are forcing blu-ray buyers to pay more for something they might not even want.

Cannot wait for this release. My platinum dvd will be gifted to a nephew. I hope they give us another nice Disney Coupon to bring the blu ray combo pack way down in price like recent releases. Love the cover art too.